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| A PREGNANT PAUSE Prenatal and Postpardum Massage Therapy and Healthful Helpful Education |
| What I Offer: * Relieving common pregnancy pain, dysfunctions, and worries * Alleviating musculoskeletal strain and pain * Facilitating the physiological processes of gestation * Reducing prenatal complications with preventative touch therapies * Eeffective, individualized sessions for typical client needs * Providing nurturing support and stress reduction * Enhancing couples' childbearing experience with touch * Preparing clients physically and emotionally for birthing * Increasing clients' kinesthetic awareness for easier labors * Facilitating relaxation, pain reduction, and progress of labor * Supporting laboring woman and their partners with touch * Managing the practical challenges of providing labor massage therapy Postpartum * Facilitating postpartum physiological adjustments * Restoring the abdomen * Rebalancing postural and movement patterns * Reducing the musculoskeletal strain of mothering tasks * Improving post-surgical recovery after Cesarean births * Supporting the somato-emotional integration of the childbearing experience The Benefits of Prenatal Massage *Reduces stress * Promotes relaxation * Facilitates transistions through emotional support and physical nuturing *Reduces edema and blood pressure * Releives varicose viens *Increases blood and lymph circulation * Facilitates harmonal, respiratory, gastrointestional, uninary and other physiological processes durring pregnancy *Reduces musculoskeletal strain and pain *Contributes to developing flexibility and kinestetic awareness necessary to actively participate in the birth process *Fosters nurturing maternal touch *Contributes to shorter less painful labor * Reduces labor complications, medications and interventions * Improves infant well-being Postpartum Massage Benefits *Facilitates postpartum emotional, phycological, and family adjustments * Reduces musculoskeletal and organic pain * Promootes strucural realignment of the spine and pelvis, and reorganization of movement * Contributes to rehabilitation of abdominal skin, muscles and organs * Promotes recovery from cesarean birth, including healing of the incision * Relieves muscel strain caused by childcare activities |
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